Dating After Getting Sober: Doing What I Never Thought I’d Do

If pop culture is to be taken seriously, a woman’s twenties are supposed to be the most joyfully reckless years of her life. When I was a teenager, I hoped I would spend my twenties writing the next Great American Novel by day and drinking in impossibly hip bars by night. I would date a series of increasingly handsome, intelligent, and kind men. Presumably, I would settle down with one of them at some point, though my fantasies never really got past the “increasingly handsome men” part (continued).

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Katie MacBride is a freelance journalist, essayist, and co-founder and associate editor of Anxy magazine. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vice, Playboy, and The Daily Beast, among other publications. Follow her on Twitter: @msmacb
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